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| 881991 | 2010-05-03 02:54:00 | What are the benefits of dual radio access points over a single? I'm looking at a situation where there are 20 to 30 users on one or two access points in a wireless network. There will be a mix of wireless cards. |
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| 881992 | 2010-05-03 02:56:00 | If it is the same ones as I am thinking, dual radio ones mean you can run both G and N networks at full speed; G on the 2.4GHz band and N on the 5GHz band. The advantage is that you get better speed (if you have both N and G traffic sharing the same 2.4GHz band, it slows both down). But they cost more than normal ones. |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 881993 | 2010-05-03 03:09:00 | So dual radio doesn't really provide any load balancing of wireless devices on the same channel. It is more about diff cards being able to run at full speed. |
myke (7862) | ||
| 881994 | 2010-05-03 04:45:00 | well in a sense it does offer load balancing; for home users for example, they can put all their normal traffic on the 2.4GHz G network (eg web browsing etc) and all their high speed things like file transfers, media streaming etc on the 5GHz N network. But I dont think they do load balancing on the same channel, I haven't investigated that. It is possible though, eg 2 radios, both on 2.4ghz, but one is for G and the other for N. It will depend on the router itself. |
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